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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary

Please add a Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary function to Cognos Analytics in the Cloud.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Enhance capabilities for welcome page customization

Currently the themes allow a few cosmetic properties to be updated while customizing the welcome page for Cognos Analytics. I was looking to be able to customize the navbarpushbuttonforeground color property but it does not exist, only the navbarp...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Image Gallery Support With SSL

Image gallery works fine with SSL disabled but doesn't work (with PDF and XLS) with SSL enabled. Recommended IBM workaround also doesn't work.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The ability to repoint a view to a different source report

Previous versions have allowed the source report of a view to be amended. This is no longer an option in 11.0.5
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rendering of tabs in the dashboard is not available

Tabs in the dashboard cannot be render conditionally. Why?
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ISAM configuration with Cognos 11.0.9 with SSO

we have installed cognos analytics(11.0.9) on a Linux machine with IBM HTTP. Later we are trying to configure the CA with ISAM for security and single sign on. where we are facing issues.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration